I'm speaking to friends in North and Central London who are feeling like they've been invaded. Several of these Ospreys are regularly flying around - they're big, threatening and noisy. This is real-life trolling on a governmental scale.
It says so much - we are here and we own you to the extent that we can dominate your senses and trigger all the fears embedded from years of Hollywood movies. If you don't hear "Ride of the Valkyries" when you see and hear 'copters like this, you've been culturally disengaged for the last thirty years.
We are not at war, we have not been invaded or occupied. The President of the US is visiting and will soon be gone again. He's noisy, immature and reckless. His presence is disturbing, but his weakness is that we know that it is designed to disturb, we shall overcome. This too shall pass.
In the meantime, what to do? Stand and speak for unity, love and peace. Hold each other a little tighter and continue to do as we would be done by. And maybe get some ear plugs :)
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